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Dead Beef?


From: Wolfgang Formann 
Subject: More jokes
Date: Sun, 21 Nov 1999 20:30:42 +0100
   
This was true with the ancient IBM 6150/6151!   

When you looked at the registers of the CPU with their debugger,
all uninitialized registers had the hexcode 0xdeadbeef!
       
I do not know if this is still true with Power-PC, but I did
laugh much that time (somewhen in the late 80's).
         
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Updated: $Date: 2006/05/07 07:10:36 $ $Author: ramprasadb $